Environmental Standards

In today's world, we have an ever-increasing responsibility to take care of the environment. EZ Dock has always put the environment at the forefront when engineering new products. The EZ Dock system is designed as an environmentally friendly floating dock for use with boats, personal watercraft, or as a free floating swimming or fishing platform, and is for use in residential and commercial applications. Appropriate uses include both recreational and commercial.

The dock design is composed of two parts, the floating polyethylene sections and the molded rubber couplers. Both, polyethylene and rubber were chosen as materials for dock components as environmentally friendly products, which are completely harmless to the environment and can be recycled when the intended design use is finished. In addition to being environmentally friendly, the products offer superior performance characteristics. EZ Dock floating dock sections and lifts offer the following environmental safety regulations:

• Manufactured with NRA-235 high performance general-purpose UV-stabilized rotational molding grade resins. These resins offer a balance of toughness, rigidity, environmental stress crack resistance, and low temperature impact performance.*
• Resin conforms to FDA regulations (21 CFR 177.1520) regarding the use of polyethylene in food contact articles.*
• Suitable for processing by an approved recycling facility or can be disposed of at any US government approved waste disposal facility.*
• Not listed by the EPA as a hazardous waste, nor is it formulated to contain materials, which are listed hazardous wastes. It does not exhibit the hazardous characteristics of ignitability, corrosively, or reactivity and is not formulated with contaminants as determined by the Toxicity Characteristic
• Leaching Procedure (TCLP).*
• Requires no foam filling. When a product is filled with foam, that foam can escape if the product would be punctured thereby creating an environmental hazard.
• The EZ Dock system design uses no wood products, which could be treated with copper, chromium or arsenic (CCA). Products, which contain CCA can no longer be placed where they are directly in contact with water.

The EZ Dock patented coupler was engineered, and partially funded by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, to be an environmentally friendly product. The EZ coupler connector product is made from 90% pre/post consumer waste recycled rubber.

* Mobil Oil Corporation, Environmental Health and Safety Department, 970418-01 Material Safety Data Bulletin